Children enjoy inflicting pain until unhappiness teaches them tenderness. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Suffering teaches us only that we suffer. Joy shows us which way to go. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
